2016-2017 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
SW 613 - Human Rights and Social Work
The course is structured to provide students with a basis for literacy about modern human rights, including core principles, key documents, institutions, and practices. A framework for the analysis of social work/human rights interactions is utilized and systematically applied, including but not limited to the effect of social, political and economic policies, and programs on human rights; health and social consequences of human rights violations; and the inextricable linkage between promoting and protecting mental and physical health, community well-being and family functioning and promoting and protecting human rights. Prerequisite: SW 610.
Credits: 3